Chapter 43 Acquiring Supernatural Abilities!

"I'm alive!"

Yu Fei gasped heavily, the agonizing pain washing away from his body like a receding tide.

Sweat soaked his clothes completely.

It took a good long while for Yu Fei to finally catch his breath.

He casually reached out his hand, intending to pull out the syringe stuck in his arm, but it wouldn't budge at all. The syringe felt as though it had been firmly jammed in place.

It was only after Yu Fei exerted a bit more force that he managed to pull the syringe out.

"Is this because my skin density increased, gripping the needle tight enough to cause this?"

Yu Fei casually tossed the syringe onto the table nearby and began to examine his own skin, finding that it was indeed much smoother and firmer than before.

In particular, the somewhat dense dark hair he used to have on his body had been reduced to nothing more than extremely fine vellus hairs.

These were even finer than the natural peach fuzz he used to have, virtually undetectable unless examined with extreme care.

"If I go a step further, would that be the 'Subduing the White Tiger' realm in traditional martial arts?"

In traditional martial arts, there is a state achieved only at a profound realm, known as "Subduing the White Tiger."

Roughly speaking, it means locking down all of one's vital essence so that from then on, the entire body leaks nothing.

One of the external manifestations of this realm is the contraction of all pores across the entire body, preventing vital energy from escaping through any aperture whatsoever.

In other words—total hairlessness across the body!

Yu Fei certainly couldn't be considered as having "subdued the White Tiger" yet, but he was getting a faint taste of it.

After a moment of thought, Yu Fei took out a military dagger and lightly drew it across his arm.

The tactile sensation was akin to cutting thick cowhide; Yu Fei felt a slight discomfort, but his skin remained unbroken.

He gradually increased his strength, finally estimating that it took about fifty kilograms of force before he managed to break the skin.

A shallow wound appeared on his arm.

Yu Fei pulled the dagger away, and a unique sensation arose in his mind—recovery.

With a sudden flash of understanding, he silently chanted in his heart: —Heal the wound!

In an instant.

An itching sensation emanated from the wound, and in a mere two or three seconds, the injury was restored to its original state, leaving behind only a faint trace of blood.

With a casual wipe of his hand, Yu Fei's arm once again became as smooth as before.

"Defensive capability, recovery capability, and... strength!"

Yu Fei clenched his fists, feeling that his current strength was at least more than double what it had been before injecting the Type-T Evolution Serum.

In other words, his physical strength had skyrocketed from five hundred kilograms to a thousand kilograms!

"One thousand kilograms, equivalent to one ton."

Yu Fei frowned with a hint of dissatisfaction.

A force of one ton was indeed formidable, reaching a level utterly untouchable by normal human beings.

If he were transported back to his previous world, he could smash any world boxing champion or top-tier martial artist straight into paste with a single punch!

But in this world, to say nothing of mutant lizardmen or Spider-Men, even peak human figures like Captain America and the Kingpin were vastly more powerful than him.

"Perhaps it's because the power of the Type-T Evolution Serum was skewed toward psychokinesis, which is why the physical reinforcement isn't as prominent?"

Thinking along these lines, Yu Fei began to test his psychokinetic abilities.

Upon regaining consciousness, he had instinctively perceived that he had acquired the superpower of psychokinetic manipulation, along with an innate knowledge of how to use it.

With a mere flick of his will, the syringe on the table wavered and floated into the air.

Perhaps because he was using it for the first time and was still somewhat unaccustomed to it, the syringe wasn't very obedient. Twice, due to Yu Fei's lack of focused concentration, it dropped back down to the ground.

However, after a round of experimentation, Yu Fei was finally able to command his psychokinesis.

Yet, once he gained full control over his psychokinesis and tested its approximate limits, his expression changed.

"I can lift an object weighing no more than ten kilograms at most, and the control range doesn't exceed ten meters? Even the top speed can't reach ten meters per second?!"

Was this truly the transcendent psychokinesis he had longed for so dearly?!

"System!"

With a sullen face, Yu Fei summoned the system interface.

Host: Yu Fei
Physique: 1.8 (continuously improving)
Spirit: 1.7 (continuously improving)
Transcendent Skills: Psychokinesis (Upgrading), Super Strength (Upgrading), Super Defense (Upgrading), Super Recovery (Upgrading), Super Speed (Upgrading)
Normal Skills: Combat LV·3 (MAX), Marksmanship LV·3 (MAX), Computer LV·3 (MAX), Throwing LV·2 (0/100)
Merit Value: 5 wisps / 85 points

It had to be said that this dose of the Type-T Evolution Serum provided a rather massive boost to Yu Fei.

Not only did his physique attribute increase from 1.5 to 1.8 and his spirit attribute from 1.3 to 1.7, but the system also abruptly dropped five transcendent skills on him all at once.

These were the psychokinesis he had been yearning for, alongside the four body-attribute-related transcendent skills of Super Strength, Super Defense, Super Recovery, and Super Speed.

However...

"What does this string of 'Upgrading' mean?!"

Gazing at the "Upgrading" label appended to several of his transcendent skills, Yu Fei was depressed to the extreme.

"Alice, she—wait!"

Yu Fei suddenly recalled.

Alice's own superpowers didn't seem to reach their peak all at once either; they gradually grew over time.

Even the Spider-Man of this world didn't instantly possess his peak physical condition; it too developed and improved steadily over time.

"Although I utilized Merit Value during this process, that Merit Value was directly applied to the T-virus itself, which is completely different from me directly upgrading myself!"

The former acts upon an external object, while the latter acts upon oneself.

When acting upon oneself, Yu Fei could naturally achieve his goal in a single step, directly reaching the most ideal peak.

But when acting upon an external object...

What Yu Fei had previously requested was the complete purification of the T-virus, and the system had indeed transformed the T-virus into the Type-T Evolution Serum, completely eliminating the negative side effects inherent to the T-virus itself.

From the results, the system had accomplished exactly what he asked for.

As for how the Type-T Evolution Serum would be absorbed subsequently, that was an entirely separate matter.

Having realized this, although Yu Fei still found it somewhat hard to swallow, he had to admit that there was nothing logically wrong with it.

Moreover, when he focused deeply and sensed his condition, he discovered that there was indeed a continuous, endless stream of power nourishing his body from within.

From flesh to spirit, his strength was enhancing all-around, bit by bit.

This speed was actually not slow at all, as Yu Fei roughly estimated.

Within a single day at most, his current comprehensive combat strength would at least double!

"Even if the improvement speed slows down later due to various reasons, it will take at most a month for me to thoroughly reach my true peak!"